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a short anagram brain teaser
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:37 am
by KatyBr
Anagram Guru 5
Language brain teaser are those that involve the english language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
The following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an animal or insect.Try to figure it out.
1. Zeal, Gel
2. Neat, Help
3. Boa, Luff
4. Bow, Mat
5. Evil, Owner
Katy
Re: a short anagram brain teaser
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:26 pm
by Stargzer
Only got three so far; two rather quickly (1,4), one after a bit of work (3). But, since this is a Web-enabled world, I used Anu Garg's Internet Anagram Server on wordsmith.org for the last two. The brain gets too tired at the end of the day.
1. Zeal, Gel
---Gazelle
2. Neat, Help
---Elephant
3. Boa, Luff
---Buffalo
4. Bow, Mat
---Wombat
5. Evil, Owner
---Wolverine
More anagrams
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 8:27 am
by Dr. Goodword
Here are five more that I made up. See if you can do them without the aid of an anagram server.
sore, rot
last, lion
fig, fare
lair, gloat
rose, run, hic
Try them in the morning, Larry.
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:38 pm
by KatyBr
rooster
salt lion????
Giraffe
Alligator
rhinoceros
to use an anagram server is cheating when we are doing a 'brain' teaser, I'm afraid I couldn't get the other one. my poor brain just can't cope.
Kt
amended to put in stallion
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:51 pm
by tcward
LOL, Katy, that's the one that stood out immediately to me -- stallion.
-Tim
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 9:49 pm
by Stargzer
LOL, Katy, that's the one that stood out immediately to me -- stallion.
-Tim
Oh, Horses...
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:57 pm
by Stargzer
OK, here's a
decade more!
1. AFTER, IN
2. GALS, USE
3. DWEEB, ISLET
4. MACRON, ROT
5. ACNE, LIP
6. ANGORA, NUT
7. OCEANA, GOADS
8. ITALY, BLOG
9. DECOR, COIL
10. SAINTLIKE BULKED
Enjoy!
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:43 am
by gailr
Hey daddyos and grrrlz; it's been dullsville here at the agora, so I resurrected an old anagram thread.
1. AFTER, IN
fainter
3. DWEEB, ISLET
Wildebeest
9. DECOR, COIL
Crocodile
-gailr
-a girl
-grail